Fashion Books
Ermenegildo Zegna
The extraordinary story of the first century of a great Italian fashion house that has always been a paragon of style. Gorgeously designed, handsomely bound, and abundantly illustrated, this is the first book ever to present the 100-year history of a leader in men's luxury clothing and one of the oldest business families in Italy.
Manolo's New Shoes
Manolo Blahnik's name is synonymous with beautifully crafted shoes that radiate originality, style, and exuberance. Here, more than 130 of Blahnik's witty, seductive drawings are collected into one inspiring volume.
Lessons in Fashion
The first book to reveal the fashion ideology of one of the most renowned Italian designers. Gianfranco Ferre was known as the architect of fashion.
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Fashion Design
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Fashion Design is a cutting-edge design anthology featuring more than 300 established and emerging fashion designers around the world.
Matthew Williamson
A unique insight into one of the most exciting fashion designers working today, revealing the imagination fueling his exuberant creations.
Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style
The never-before-published wardrobe of a timeless star, for lovers of fashion, photography and film history. Greta Garbo's influence over fashion has transcended time. For the first time a catalogue of great glamour and a travelling exhibition detail this extraordinary wardrobe whose minimalism fits so well with current fashion trends.
Fashioning Fashion
Luxurious textiles, exacting tailoring, and lush trimmings abound in this glorious volume that celebrates the evolution of European dress through two centuries. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the evolution of fashion, this generously illustrated book provides a rich visual history of the changes that occurred in fashionable dress spanning a period of more than two hundred years.
Alexander McQueen: Genius of a Generation
This tribute to Alexander McQueen celebrates the genius of an iconic, imaginative, and inspirational fashion designer with more than 125 catwalk photographs of his work in addition to commentary from an experienced fashion journalist and tributes by prominent people in the fashion world.
Figure Drawing for Fashion Design
Figure Drawing for Fashion Design offers a concise, topic by topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills of visualising ideas and concepts in costume and fashion design, concentrating on the female form.
Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Suitable for beginners and experienced patternmakers, this book's breadth of topics and detailed coverage allows students to grow as their skills progress. This edition features a new fashion and technical illustration programme that was revamped to reflect a more contemporary and culturally diverse look.
1000 Ideas by 100 Fashion Designers
How do designers create constant objects of desire? In this book, 100 designers give 1000 tips on what it takes to be a great fashion designer. These tips address a number of issues: flare inspiration, collection concept, the promise of clothing, the use of fabrics, and more.
Contemporary Fashion Illustration Techniques
Contemporary Fashion Illustration Techniques thoroughly describes the basics of fashion illustration, and covers the latest trends such as vivid images, sprightly movement, and garment material texture.
Backstage: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin
Leading photographer Claudius Holzmann, who shot at the fashion week from the very beginning, has sifted through approximately 40,000 images to select those that capture the extremes of creativity and passion. Through his eyes, we sneak glimpses of the drama that prevails behind the scenes. Be captivated by the swirling atmosphere as Holzmann chronicles the designers, makeup artists and models that make this a unique spectacle.
Isms: Understanding Fashion
This engaging and informative guide lays out the significant design trends and movements that have shaped costume and fashion from the ancients through today. Concisely written, this book packs loads of detail into a handy small format, tracing the evolution of costume history and fashion through a series of interconnected trends and movements (a.k.a. "isms") from the Greco-Roman toga and the antebellum hoop skirt to the latest from the runway.
China Fashion
China Fashion: Conversations with Designers documents the rise (and rise) of fashion design in China. Written by an insider, this book provides a fascinating survey based on the personal, professional and creative experiences of the most influential Chinese fashion designers.
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History
This book examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example.
The Anatomy of Fashion
Taking different body parts in turn, The Anatomy of Fashion invites us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, the chapters both explore a different aesthetic and examine its wider, and often surprising, implications. In countless different ways, fashion is caught up in the larger picture of its chronological moment.
The Great Fashion Designers
From Charles Frederick Worth to Nicolas Ghesquiere, designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of contemporary popular culture. This brilliantly written analysis of the achievements of the 50 greatest names in international fashion explores their lives, both personal and professional, drawing on the latest academic research and on the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers spanning a 30-year period.
Chinese Fashion: From Mao to Now
This book provides the first comprehensive account of modern Chinese fashion from 1978 to the present day. The book, which takes a chronological approach, offers an analysis of the development of the Chinese fashion industry as well as an analysis of the relationship between dress, gender, identity and consumption in contemporary China.
My Favourite Dress
This lavishly illustrated book reveals the emotional attachment, shared by designers, celebrities, models, photographers, stylists, and fashion editors, to the most treasured item in their memory or wardrobe: their favourite dress. Over 100 designers and key industry players from around the world have described the very personal reasons behind their choices. Through text, photographs by leading fashion photographers, fabric samples, original sketches and other ephemera, their choices come alive on the page.
Fashion: The Key Concepts
Fashion is a global industry with huge economic, political and cultural impact, from the impact of the catwalk on mainstream retail to sweatshop production to celebrity branding. Fashion: The Key Concepts presents a concise overview of this complex phenomenon - the meanings of clothes, the different cultural and fashion systems around the world, how fashion uses the media to reach its markets, how fashion shapes global culture and is replicated or challenged in various subcultures, how fashion operates as a political system of its own and also serves as a tool of politics, how the fashion industry is structured and how it "thinks" and behaves. Illustrated with a wide range of images and case studies, the aim throughout is to present a comprehensive, but also accessible and provocative, analysis of fashion.
Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture
Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research.
When Clothes Become Fashion
When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the world of fashion - its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions.
Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture
The book is structured as a seductive anthology of the house's most visible collaborations. Critical essays examine and position Louis Vuitton's patronage-under the guidance of Artistic Director Marc Jacobs - during one of the most fertile periods of contemporary art and design.
Madeleine Vionnet
Celebrating the iconic designer known as "the queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among couturieres."
Workwear: Work Fashion Seduction
Along with the economic and social revolution in Western society, the role of work garments has changed too-showing what we do and telling the world who we are. This book looks at forms, uses and fabrics by cataloguing materials taken directly from various work environments. Such cataloguing is interwoven with style and research, highlighting the influence work clothes have had, not only on fashion, but also on our contemporary way of dressing.
Virginia Woolf, Fashion, and Literary Modernity
Virginia Woolf, Fashion, and Literary Modernity reads Woolf's work through the lens of Victorian sartorial practice, considering theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, from Wyndham Lewis to J. C. Flugel. Bringing together studies in fashion, body culture, and modernism, the book investigates the moment in which clothes became objects, signs, things, and embodied practice.
Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out
One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cuban-born Isabel Toledo has been honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper- Hewitt Museum and a Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion, given by The Museum at FIT. Yet her name and work are recognized only by fashion insiders. This ravishing book brings Toledo's creations to a wider audience, places them within the context of contemporary fashion, and examines her creative process.
Drawing for Fashion Designers
From simple line drawings to collage, painting, and computer graphics, Drawing for Fashion Designers is the most complete guide to depicting the clothed human figure. Students of fashion will appreciate the technical information and step-by-step instruction on virtually all drawing techniques-from mastering the intricate movements of the body to bringing fabric texture and pattern to life on the page.
Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection
Fashion collections vary depending on market level, product type, season, customer and retail outlets. "Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection" teaches the process from initial design ideas through development of product to the final outcome and its ultimate exhibition and sale, and includes an overview of fashion collections through the eyes of prominent fashion journalists.